advantage

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Synonyms: aduantage, avantage, vantage, advantages, advantaged

Antonyms: aduantage, avantage, vantage, advantages, advantaged

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|countable}} Any [[condition]], [[circumstance]], [[opportunity]] or [[means]], particularly [[favorable]] or [[chance]] to [[success]], or to any desired end.
2. {{lb|en|obsolete}} Superiority; [[mastery]]; — ''used with {{m|en|of}} to specify its nature or with {{m|en|over}} to specify the other party''.
3. {{lb|en|countable|uncountable}} Superiority of state, or that which gives it; [[benefit]]; gain; profit
4. {{lb|en|tennis}} The [[score]] where one player wins a point after [[deuce]] but needs the next to carry the game.
5. {{lb|en|soccer}} The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
6. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} to [[provide]] (someone) with an advantage, to give an [[edge]] to {{defdate|from 15th c.}}
2. {{lb|en|reflexive}} to do something for one's own benefit; to [[take advantage]] {{m|en|of}} {{defdate|from 16th c.}}

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